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Jennie Elmaleh <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:32:13 -0400
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In response to Pamela's post-
As the mother of 5 bilingual children (the youngest isn't talking yet but I
have no doubts), I have found that it is not a problem to accomplish this.
Years ago I was told that as long as one person speaks one language, (for
example in our case I always spoke English and my husband always Hebrew)
the child seems to identify what each person says in a structured way,
understanding that these sounds go together and the others one's go over
there, and don't confuse the two languages. I have found this to be true.
With my 4 year old, when she began to speak, she could (and still does)
easily identify a native Hebrew speaker trying to speak to her in English,
and will speak only Hebrew to him/her. When a native English speaker speaks
to her in Hebrew, she answers in English- it's amazing. She also thinks
that she needs to translate for me into English, things that her dad says
to her in Hebrew and visa versa. I wish that they had been exposed to even
more languages, they seem like sponges that could absorb and absorb- don't
forget those who grew up in Europe years ago- many people spoke Yiddish at
home, and several languages in school, like Russian and Polish, Hungarian
and and Rumanian, or other combinations.
Good luck!
Jennie in Israel

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